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or, if his shrubberies are extensive, to see that his 

 people go about with prongs and forks, and carefully 

 dislodge the snow from the boughs ; since the naked 

 foliage will shift much better for itself, than where 

 the snow is partly melted and frozen again. 



It may perhaps appear, at first, like a paradox; 

 but doubtless the more tender trees and shrubs 

 should never be planted in hot aspects : not only 

 for the reason assigned above, but also because, thus 

 circumstanced, they are disposed to shoot earlier in 

 the spring, and to grow on later in the autumn than 

 they would otherwise do, and so are sufferers by 

 lagging or early frosts. For this reason, also, plants 

 from Siberia will hardly endure our climate ; because, 

 on the very first advances of spring, they shoot away, 

 and so are cut off by the severe nights cf March or 

 April. 



Dr. Fothergill and others have experienced the 

 same inconvenience with respect to the more tender 

 shrubs from North America : which they, therefore, 

 plant under north walls. There should also, perhaps, 

 be a wall to the east, to defend them from the 

 piercing blasts from that quarter. 



This, observation might, without any impropriety, 

 be carried into animal life ; for discerning bee- 

 masters now find that their hives should not, in the 

 winter, be exposed to the hot sun, because such 

 unseasonable warmth awakens the inhabitants too 

 early from their slumbers ; and, by putting their 

 juices into motion too soon, subjects them after- 

 wards to inconveniences when rigorous weather 

 returns. 



The coincidents attending this short but intense 

 frost were, that the horses fell sick with an epidemic 

 distemper, which injured the winds of many, and 

 killed some ; that colds and coughs were general 

 among the human species ; that it froze under 



